Ordinary people in extraordinary times: the citizenry and the breakdown of democracy

Part I: Our literature and interwar Europe

Heroes or villains? images of citizens and civil society in the literature on democracy

Ordinary people and the breakdown of democracy in interwar Europe

Part II: South America and our literature revised

The reluctant coup in Brazil

The slow-motion coup in Uruguay

The tragedy of democracy in Chile

The violent death of democracy in Argentina

Polarization and the ignorance of elites